We recently began using what we call an SMS Push application. SMS Push allows us to send Text Messages to our subscribers in bulk. Typically these messages are some Marketing promotion or a Customer Service announcement. The message text and a list of MDNs is provided to the application and it sends them serially, one …
Monthly Archives: June 2008
PDSN packet inspection
Today Nortel presented their solution for monitoring and billing high bandwidth users of the wireless broadband network. Software running directly in the Starent PDSN basically uses deep packet inspection to implement traffic shaping. The product is called Enhanced Charging Services (ECS) and it claims to provide integrated content-based billing. The solution as presently sold might …